Crossing the Line Festival Includes a Dancer’s Mini-Residency

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The Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula, who will present three works — including two new commissions — as part of this year’s Crossing the Line Festival.CreditCreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times

A dozen premieres, including four new commissioned works, are on tap for this year’s Crossing the Line Festival, the French Institute Alliance Française’s annual event for innovative art from a variety of disciplines.

The festival, now in its 11th year, is scheduled to run Sept. 6 through Oct. 15 at venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Of the four commissioned artworks, two involve the Congolese choreographer and performer Faustin Linyekula, who will have what amounts to a New York residency as part of the festival and Bridging, an initiative with the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mr. Linyekula will present a new work commissioned with Met LiveArts, performed with the South African dancer Moya Michael and inspired by the museum’s Kingdom of Kongo collection. Another commission, with Dancing in the Streets, will involve Mr. Linyekula appearing with 20 street and subway dancers in the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Mr. Linyekula’s “In Search of Dinozord” — a politically minded fairy tale about the Congo, set to fragments of Mozart’s Requiem — will also have its American premiere as part of the festival, with a brief run at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

Among the festival’s other commissions are “#Punk,” the choreographer Nora Chipaumire’s concert inspired by 1970s music (Patti Smith in particular) and her years growing up in Zimbabwe from the ’70s into the 1990s. And the director Annie Dorsen will present “The Great Outdoors,” a theater piece in which a lone performer reads text from internet comments that have been fed through an algorithm — what is being billed as a way to imagine “the internet’s infinite possibilities as a new form of celestial authority.”

The full lineup, which includes an art installation on the screens of Times Square and channeling Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland in drag, is available at crossingtheline.org.